I agree on this part.

Lots of good work here, but some bits were bugging me so I took a crack at it (while also fixing the structure/punctuation/capitalization, so it doesn't grate on my "that's-bad-English" nerve...)

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Listen to the tales and romanticize
How we follow the path of the hero
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun
How we rise to the height of our halo

Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the Savior
Feigning all the trials and the tribulations
None of us have actually been there
Not like you

Ignorant fibbers in the congregation
Gather around spewing sympathy
Spare me
None of them can even hold a candle up to you
Blinded by choice
These hypocrites won't see

But nothing - Not the collective Judas
Who could deny?
You were the one who illuminated
Your little piece of the divine

This little light of mine
The gift you passed onto me
I'm going to let it shine
To guide you safely on your way
Your way home...

What are they going to do when the lights go down
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun
Other than tremble incessantly ?

High is the way
But our eyes are upon the ground
You were the Light and the Way
That they'll only read about
I only pray Heaven knows
When to lift you out
10,000 days in the fire is long enough
You're going home

You're the only one who can hold your head up high
Shake your fist at the gates sayin'
"I have come home now
Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended
It's time now, my time now, give me my, give me my wings!"

Give me my
Give me my
Give me my
Give me my
Give me my wings....

You are the Light, the Way
That they will only read about

Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance
Burning all through, tossed upon the believers
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence
Judith Marie, unconditional one

Daylight dims, leaving cold flouresence
Difficult to see you in this light
Please forgive this, bold suggestion
Should you see your Maker's face tonight
Look 'im in the eye
Look 'im in the eye
And tell Him
I never lived a lie
Never took a life
But surely saved one
Hallelujah
It's time for you to bring me home

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I know some of that is different than what anyone else here has posted. I'm confident this version, while not perfect, is closer to what's there both in matching the syllables and in following the story of an unbeliever coming to understand how someone can have faith and realizing that even if he doesn't agree with her that most others who profess to have such faith fall so far short of the mark that he decides to take some of her faith upon himself to ensure she gets to Heaven.

When you look at it that way, it makes a whole lot of sense that the song condemning hypocrites comes right after it, now doesn't it?

ryan